The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-06-22

in RaltimorA with lis Italian towers. | fell
the tendency of our blending race toward
LIGHTER and mora sentimental and graceful
exnression IN ALI THINGS ms compared with
the heavier English forms Of the first quar-
ter of orr century. such as the followers Of
! Wren and lingo Jon es introduced.
| Mr.. MulIeSs buildings when in the treas.
ury service were gotten ont of Jones, taste
| in ereat mart who dealt in LARGE masses nj
| Stone and beyele5 ar s.rusticate,lp bis base.
ments. s a ~
No sueb buildings would he mt M, Il,
America now as the gloomy old New YORK
crstom-boi,se or the limited States Rank in
PHILADELPHIA. or Mills Treasury colonnade
in washington.
The affectatioD of Greek and Roman forms
after the French yevoIution was drawn fro,,,
| fancied resemblance az their renublic and
ours IN those of antio,,itv which M Jeffar-
son. from his long residence in France cod.
| died and 40 sent home the Roman p,aison
oayys of the ao,,th Of France 10 he the v;r-
ginia State canital. and built his university
Mt charlottesville I'M = .sey;ea of =norticoed
academies. instead of consulting air light
dryness and holiness.
In reality. the modern commercial repub-
| lies of Italy and Flanders.-where the eccIe-
siastical forms were made TO glide into social
and civic uses and variations toward senti-
ment and nature-more resembIed our re-
| publican experiment than the baseball. semi
! nude, athletic states and societies which di-
yided Greece and finally destroyed her by
| the compact, highly federalized Macedonian
civilization which England nearly repeats
"a little learning is dangerous thing is
| Il profound maxim, and the political smat-
terers who had been abroad with one eye,
and kept all their suspicious for home use,
laid away the component parts of the Ameri-
can civil war, which was only noble from its
Universally, picking up our whole nation as
by federal earthquake, and laying the raw
side of the cake on the griddle TO get some
fire and sense.
| The practical part of the United States is
the best part of 1t, and both our law and
architecture would be better II we consulted
our graceful fluent, just and natural DISPOSE
tions and looked oftener into the faces near
by, which are the true guides of the artistic
spirit. sl.sl 40 ezi.l a..liss
The open windows of Mr.. Hills new build
ing in Baltimore, those next to the roof, are
large like child's eyes; the windows next
below, half closed, look suspicious and like
premature skepticism The middle tower rises
| like hollyhock and saws "rm wild. field
| thing, but like to grow and can't be grown
in mold"
| Latrobe, who was our first educated archi-
tect, did his best things when he looked
abroad over the low country in which he
| had arrived but he did not look often
enough, and hence he repeated his domes.
whether in cathedral. capitol. merchants
exchange or private residence.
There is nothing of the dome form general
| in America. except the SQUASH family. The
esotic dome would no more thrive here than
| the aloe plant or the elephant.
Sowhen Mr.. Walters endeayored to lift our
| very classical capitol at Washington out of
| tha oortb wbaro n sot undor n. heII-cro,,,,od
- - ~, 10 !" ''eu
hes' anu ."v oAsi4' iis's VA ehe wings ne
went and got hens egg, or birds egg,
! dome at Washington is as graceful as If
,.,,,ra laid n l., hev ,,ost &c H. -.
"".u ie'u ~ :" ie, uus' u Di"e sAie e,
d. Feter come 10 Lke an IRON Doiiing-pot
| compared TO this acorn at Washington.
The dome forms of Baltimore, raised in
asi';n ar - Co,s,s ,.,;.s,
| sonio''''"e u '''e "ii "a ooi'o'"''iioi'ie WIN
her mosques.
i have colored print Of fifty years ago, In
which Baltimore appears like Smyrna or
t,vnyps and the power If Influence for all
= H. ~ on,
hinss ID seen III 'i,e uis.ii'e'iseness Vi Da'.l-
| more dwellings to TINS day. lie who POUNDS
| city will be long time dying In IL, like
the founder of family. which preserves
! 80 la. 4.a;ts ;,,dae,,;to,,,
some OF ms traits inaehnlteiy,
Inc American Oh to-oay, Win more gen
eral education, can, If he has the reflective will
carry his college education in his eve and
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